357 Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft ...

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard of what does not matter.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.